Lerici

Lerici has served as a small port on Liguria’s eastern coast since the Middle Ages. The town curves around a sheltered inlet on the Gulf of Poets, part of the Ligurian Sea beside the Bay of La Spezia, with wooded slopes rising behind its waterfront. Lerici Castle commands the harbour, recalling the strategic importance of this contested coast in the medieval rivalry between Genoa and Pisa. The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley spent his final months at Villa Magni in nearby San Terenzo before his death at sea in 1822. Trace Lerici’s setting along the Gulf of Poets by browsing webcams from the surrounding Ligurian coast.

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